i will be at the buttercup cafe at 10.30 reading troll swap and helping children create their own hairy troll glove puppets

i will have pom poms, sequins and glue at the ready!

(yes yes i know, i am doing artwave that day also…. so the fact is i am a bit scatty at the moment and got all the dates jumbled in my head…. but will be racing back home after the event where my husband will be manning the fort)

my daughter and i tested them out to see if they would work….

… and dah dah… here are the results!

yes i know, this was a month or so ago, but give me a break! i have been busy ok and only just got around to blogging it.lovely review though, and lovely company to be in also.wish i had time to make a new book…. sigh…. sooon hoon…..

whoop whoop hark at the french trollswap!

their french names did make me chuckle i have to say…

timothy limpets french name is Hippolyte Patel…

and tabitha lumpits french name is Petula Petal

there is something weirdly satisfying seeing what looks like your own handwriting in a book, with words you have written, in a different language that you cannot speak (i flunked my french a level years ago oops!)

whoop whoop here they are!

troll swap in hardback and in softyback

troll swap is my latest picture book with nosy crow

will be out in real live actual shops in march i think

100% genuine trolls guaranteed

100% genuine good little boys and girls included

100% good trollish story on lovely woodf ree paper (swoon!)

so through the post today i received my troll swap proofs!

sooo exciting!

this is my first book using woodfree paper, which is nice and thick and rough.

Pleased with the matt lamination on the front cover

this book is like wife swap- but with a troll and a little girl instead.

this is timothy limpet (a rubbish troll)

and this is tabitha lumpit (a not very good at being good little girl)

the book needs a couple of teeny tweaks and will be out next year.

long live troll!

here is the troll swap dummy book with a dazzling selection of other nosy crow picture books that are at the frankfurt book fair.

even though i havent seen these dummy books in the flesh (boo hoo) i think they all look real corkers, lets hope all the folk at the fair do.